Official language . . . again
I'm kind of wondering why Senators Inhofe, Sessions, Coburn, Bunning, and Burns feel amendment 3996, defining English as the official language of government, is necessary. Obviously, I think it's not.
I was going to add a bunch here, but Deborah Schildkraut has done a really good job already.
Further, the Constitution does not authorize the federal government to tell citizens what language to speak. States, or course, might decide to make English their official language -- and several states have. But guess what'll happen: the Hispanics will become the majority there, and rather than an executive order authorizing translation of the English laws, their core will demand an actual change in the law itself, making Spanish coequal with English or -- and I would laugh my ass off if so -- making it the official language of the state. I know that wouldn't happen, but it would serve those ignorant sub-humans right to have to petition for translation of the law into English. Leave the language of government business as English, by habit, without codification, and allow the executive branch to translate the law (with the presumption that the English translation is predominant in any translated ambiguity) -- don't expect the minority, upon outnumbering you, to show you the consideration you failed to show to its members when you outnumbered them.
Man, this shit makes me tired.
I was going to add a bunch here, but Deborah Schildkraut has done a really good job already.
Further, the Constitution does not authorize the federal government to tell citizens what language to speak. States, or course, might decide to make English their official language -- and several states have. But guess what'll happen: the Hispanics will become the majority there, and rather than an executive order authorizing translation of the English laws, their core will demand an actual change in the law itself, making Spanish coequal with English or -- and I would laugh my ass off if so -- making it the official language of the state. I know that wouldn't happen, but it would serve those ignorant sub-humans right to have to petition for translation of the law into English. Leave the language of government business as English, by habit, without codification, and allow the executive branch to translate the law (with the presumption that the English translation is predominant in any translated ambiguity) -- don't expect the minority, upon outnumbering you, to show you the consideration you failed to show to its members when you outnumbered them.
Man, this shit makes me tired.
posted by heavynettle at 20:39
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Esa ley es apenas carne roja para el ignorante. El hecho es, ninguna ley puede controlar el uso de la gente de las palabras de comunicarse. Ya en Los Ángeles y mucho otro cita en los E.E.U.U., usted no puede participar en la vida civil y cultural de la ciudad a menos que usted hable español. Recuerdo la ley idiota que tenían en Turquía que le hizo un crimen para hablar kurdo en todos. Qué altavoces kurdos exactamente monolingües fueron supuestos hablar nunca fue clarificado.
Ya! Chinga los subhumanos con chain saws!
P.S. Thank you Babelfish! I couldn't have translated it myself, but I understand it well enough.
Actually, you can't even participate completely in the civil life of a little city like Portland, Oregon without some proficiency in both Spanish and Russian. I miss a lot of the Ukranian I hear, unfortunately, but most of them switch to Russian when I say hello.
Don't forget to bring up your kid as at least tri-lingual. I recommend Spanish and Cantonese as starters, and English, whatever that is.
Cantonese? I would think Mandarin would be more useful -- since, probably, at some point a U.S. administration will okay the annexation of Tai Yuan by the mainland.
We all know, of course, that everybody worth talking to already speaks English, if in some cases very strangely. And those who don't understand English probably wouldn't be offended by my saying that, because they wouldn't understand it (hee hee).
Bizga shundoq Uzbek tilna tushunmayotgan kishilar ham kerak emas!
(Whew, am I rusty. . . .)
Angchilar tolkunu kuu ekenin soz kilip oturoshot. Alardyn biroo mintet: "Andan kuu, amalkoy janibar jok-ko. Ogunu, men anyn artynan tushtum. Izin kuup jurup oturdum. Anan, akyry, atyp aldym. Birok karasam -- it bolup chikti!"
You know, now that I think of that, that joke fits the current political climate very well:
Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld were sitting around talking about how clever Al Qaeda is. Bush says, "You know, I don't know any organization as clever as Al Qaeda. One day, I was contemplating the invasion of a country that was supporting and sheltering Al Qaeda. The specially filtered and edited intelligence I read told me so. At last, I decided to invade. But when I did, it turned out that Al Qaeda was never there!"
Man, I kill myself.
Toastmistress, sizning Kyrgyz anekdotlar kitobingiz ham bormi? (sorry, my Uzbek is still better than my Kyrgyz, unless you want to concede that they're both dialects of Turkic).
I like the one about the mountain climbers, myself.
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